Rebirth of science and technology academic master

Chapter 278: Trip to CERN

"Hi Qin, welcome to CERN headquarters!"

The next day, Witten personally greeted Qin Yuanqing, and then introduced several people to Tong Qing: "This one is the chairman of CERN, and this one..."

The five people who followed Qin Yuanqing were secretly surprised because among the group of people who received them in person, there were five Nobel Prize winners in physics. They can be said to be the masters of the physics prize!

"Qin, welcome to CERN headquarters, and thank you for your outstanding contributions to theoretical physics!" said the CERN chairman.

Although Qin Yuanqing has just appeared in the world of theoretical physics for only a few months, he is already the top theoretical physicist by solving Yang Mills' theory and proposing the unified theory of strong electricity.

It is no exaggeration to say that he is the number one theoretical physicist in the world today!

Higgs, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year for discovering the 'God Particle', is well-known in the world, but his status in the theoretical physics community is far behind Qin Yuanqing. If he is ranked among the greats in the 21st century physicists, then Qin Yuanqing is undoubtedly the top one.

Once Qin Yuanqing makes any great achievements in physics, he will not be the greatest physicist in the first half of the 21st century, but the greatest physicist in the 21st century.

It is such a transcendent status that the CERN chairman and a group of famous physicists personally welcomed Qin Yuanqing as a show of respect!

"It is also an honor for me to come to the holy place of theoretical physics in the world!" Qin Yuanqing said with a smile.

Then a staff member came over to issue them work certificates, and then took in basic information. Then the group came to the entrance of the ATLAS detector. ATLAS is the code name for the ATLAS instrument, the largest detector on the LHC.

After going through a series of complicated procedures such as iris verification and testing, everyone stepped into the elevator. Soon the elevator arrived at the platform area ninety meters underground, from where ATLAS can be observed!

"Wow~" Lin Chao couldn't help but exclaimed when he came here for the first time. He saw an extremely thick blue pillar as the center, radiating out a metal structure round surface in all directions. The round surface was covered with densely packed unknown materials. What material is the reflective plate made of, and this is the ATLAS detector!

"It is 46 meters long, 25 meters in diameter, and weighs 7,000 tons, which is the same weight as the Eiffel Tower!" CERN chairman proudly introduced: "The reason why we named it Hercules is to take advantage of its unparalleled power. The power to discover tiny particles that other instruments simply cannot detect!”

ATLAS, in Greek mythology, is a Titan who supports the sky with his shoulders!

Qin Yuanqing was complaining in his heart. Having great power does not mean that he can observe tiny particles. The naming logic of Westerners is really unique sometimes!

"ATLAS can take 40 million photos per second! Of course, only about 500 of them collided head-on and were read out and analyzed!" said the CERN chairman.

It can be imagined how rigorous every experimental work is and how meticulous the analysis work is, observing tiny particles in the smallest details.

Then he took Qin Yuanqing and the others to visit the 27-kilometer-long circular tunnel, where the proton beam was accelerated to a speed close to the speed of light and then collided to simulate the scene of the Big Bang.

"It's terrible. If there is a malfunction here and people don't evacuate in time, I'm afraid there will only be a dead end!" Lin Chao exclaimed in a low voice.

Qin Yuanqing shook his head slightly. In fact, human beings have been shot through the body by high-speed particles once, and that was Anatoly Bugorsky, who left his name in history. Bugorsky was an ordinary physicist working at the National Institute of High Energy Physics of the former Soviet Union. He originally completed his work in scientific research mediocrely until his retirement. However, in 1978, he became the world's first The only person so far to have been hit in the head by a high-energy proton beam fired from a particle accelerator.

At that time, a component of the Soviet Union's largest particle accelerator, U-70, was not working during operation. The cause of the failure was a problem with the safety system. When he stuck his head in to survey the situation, he accidentally got his head stuck in the path of the high-energy proton beam. As a result, he was instantly hit in the head by a high-energy proton beam moving at close to the speed of light. He described seeing a light "brighter than a thousand suns" but felt no pain.

And what’s amazing is that Bugorski miraculously survived and is still alive today!

As for whether there is any superpower, this is not clear.

After visiting some facilities, CERN held a simple party to welcome Qin Yuanqing, and the experiment will start tomorrow. As for the other five people's internship positions, they have been arranged, so Qin Yuanqing does not need to worry about them.

Early the next morning, CERN detected the energy region predicted in Qin Yuanqing's paper, and the exploration plan for m particles officially began.

Of course, this launch of an experiment will naturally not only include this detection, but also include many planned exploration plans.

Seeing the strict ban and high quality of CERN in person, Qin Yuanqing realized more and more clearly that now is not the time for China to build a large collider, because China's theoretical physics is too weak, and a group of weak chickens are pecking each other in the country, even the second-rate in the world. Not on. Under such circumstances, even if a large collider is built at a huge cost, the right to speak will still fall in the hands of this group of famous overseas physicists.

In other words, there is a high probability that China spent a lot of money to build it, and it needs to pay a lot of cost every year. As a result, it has no say in it.

Not to mention the money paid by China, why does China have no say in China's territory?

In the world of theoretical physics, it’s not who has the right to speak who has money, but who has high level. If you’re low level, you have to listen to those who are high level. A novice wants to resist the boss? Dream on! ?

As for what attracts top foreign talents to live in China, this is complete nonsense. The eastern coast of China is not bad now, but why do so many talents still go overseas? ?

Isn't it possible to attract talents to China without building a large particle collider? ? Look at the United States. The particle collider in the United States is also very sexy. It even prohibits people from discussing whether to build a large particle collider! But look, how many people are struggling to go to the United States!

In Qin Yuanqing's view, as long as you become a world-class power, as long as you are a world hegemon, then talents all over the world will be very realistic and want to work with you!

The truth is that simple!

Water flows to lower place, man goes to higher position!

The experiment went surprisingly smoothly. In the energy area predicted by Qin Yuanqing, m particles were indeed discovered. This discovery aroused cheers from the staff. Of course, the end of the experiment was only the first step. There is still a lot of work to be done next, and m particles need to be analyzed. .

Qin Yuanqing did not wait for the subsequent report meeting, because from a mathematical point of view, Qin Yuanqing had already analyzed him thoroughly, so the day after the experiment, Qin Yuanqing left and embarked on the return journey.

Entering the first class cabin, he opened the curtain, revealing a spacious space with luxurious leather seats. There are only about ten seats in the first class cabin. The seats are relatively spacious and will be much more comfortable. If it is a domestic flight, Qin Yuanqing actually feels that first class and business class are The difference is not big, because it is only two or three hours of flight time.

But this kind of international flight is different. It lasts for 11 to 12 hours, and the experience gap between first class and business class becomes obvious.

I took a delicate blanket from a stewardess and fastened my seat belt. After a while, the plane made a slight noise and took off into the sky.

Qin Yuanqing closed his eyes slightly to rest. This visit to CERN was an eye-opener for Qin Yuanqing. Europe is worthy of being the center of physics in the world. Its academic atmosphere and academic level are indeed the best. Compared with China, China is still a primary school student. There is still a long way to go. Regardless of Whether it is in theory, training, or procedures, it all needs to be done step by step.

Of course, China is not without its advantages, that is, the atmosphere of respect for science in the society, that is, ordinary people know that science is the primary productive force. The scientific status of scientists in China is very high, and ordinary people respect scientists very much. It will never be like in Europe and the United States, where some ordinary people are suspicious of scientists and suspect that they are fabricating a network to control them. There are even some extremists who regard them as heretics and want to burn scientists alive.

It’s hard to imagine that a top physicist would receive a bullet sent to him by an environmental organization just because he works at CERN.

This is definitely not an isolated case. Otherwise, during the black swan incident, Americans would not listen to the advice and drink disinfectant, and then believe that Bill Gates is carrying out the "Human Purge Plan". This is simply a crazy idea, and then they will also question all scientific research projects.

China's current task is to make up for the lessons it has missed step by step. It is only a matter of time before it catches up, just like China's industry.

Some people can't wait to take a big step forward, but you have to know that most people are just ordinary people and there are no system plug-ins. How can they achieve it in one step? It is not that easy to go from a scumbag to a top student.

Qin Yuanqing really wished that China could make up for all the shortcomings at once, and then he could come up with nuclear fusion. How beautiful this would be!

The fact is that China is still very weak and needs time. If it takes any big steps, it will easily cause trouble.

The United States did not become a country all at once. Instead, it developed step by step and became the world's largest economy. It then slowly took decades to become the world's largest industrial power, and only then did it finally develop various black technologies.

Nowadays, China is equivalent to going the same way as the United States. You said that it has not become the world's largest economy, so how can it have spare money to invest in a large particle collider?

It won't be too late to build a large particle collider when China becomes the world's hegemon!

And compared with the large particle collider, the moon landing project is more urgent. After all, the moon contains rich nuclear fusion materials.

If we don’t speed up lunar exploration and landing, nuclear fusion will be limited by fuel.